> > Perhaps branding this "a modified variant of semantic versioning" would > alleviate the issue.
Sorry, for some reason replies on this thread got put in my spam folder. I've updated the wording not mention SemVer at all (just major version bumps on forward-incompatible features). > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 8:20 AM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I think this proposal has a communication problem: SemVer explicitly > targets backwards compatibility, but your proposal denotes forwards > compatibility changes. This may/will confuse some users who will assume > that a Parquet N+1 reader will not be able to read Parquet N files. > > Perhaps branding this "a modified variant of semantic versioning" would > alleviate the issue. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 25/06/2026 à 16:15, Micah Kornfield a écrit : > > As part of the discussion on versioning [1] a proposal was made to move > > parquet-format releases to SemVer. In particular the one concrete > proposal > > [2] is to do a major version bump every time a release includes a forward > > incompatible change. > > > > I'm starting this thread to collect other ideas per request of Antoine > [3]. > > > > Thanks, > > Micah > > > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/st8l40z5n4cx5c22rcog50ws4pkzdc3s > > [2] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/588 (note this change > has > > other non-related changes, that can be discussed separately). > > [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/tvlo1s2kzwo340vqrlt898yoxgpt8wxj > > > > >
